MSNBC guest tries to corner this GOP candidate on Donald Trump question, but it gets UGLY



MSNBC is what Dave Rubin calls a “televised mental institution” defined by “sheer and utter lunacy.”

And we can’t disagree.

When former Republican politician David Jolly asked Asa Hutchinson about whether or not he’d support Donald Trump should he be the chosen GOP candidate, things quickly turned into a hot mess all around.

“I'm just honestly in real time a bit taken aback,” said Jolly. “Governor, I don't understand what you just said – that you don't think [Trump] is qualified to be president and you don't support him, but you would support him?”

“I said on the pledge that I will support the nominee of the party,” Hutchinson replied. “I can in good conscience sign that because I believe that I'll be the nominee of the party or somebody else on the stage,” he continues, referencing the GOP debate hosted by Fox last Wednesday, August 23.

“Donald Trump is not going to participate in [the debate], and so I expect the nominee of the party to be on that stage Wednesday night,” said Hutchinson.

But Jolly didn’t like that answer.

“Whether you think he's qualified or not, are you going to vote for Donald Trump next November if he's the nominee of the Republican Party?” he pressed.

“I hear you very clearly exactly what you're asking me,” Asa retorted, clearly out of patience, “and I just gave you the answer … you don’t have to accept it.”

Sigh.

We don't know what's worse — Jolly’s intrusive questioning or Asa’s notion that he will be the nominee (has he seen the polls?).

Regardless, it's a disaster from every angle.


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Pence and Hutchinson get slaughtered in Blaze Media straw poll while Ramaswamy earns plaudits

Pence and Hutchinson get slaughtered in Blaze Media straw poll while Ramaswamy earns plaudits



A Blaze Media straw poll about the presidential forum in Iowa last week found that author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy earned high marks for his performance, but other candidates were not as well received.

Tucker Carlson interviewed multiple GOP presidential hopefuls at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit last week. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for the event. The Republican primary candidates who sat for interviews with Carlson included former Vice President Mike Pence, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Ramaswamy, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The poll results discussed below were current as of the time of writing, but the straw poll results are still fluid because new responses keep coming in. The number of votes cast in each particular question varies.

Ramaswamy earned more than 62% of the votes cast in response to the question, "Which candidate would you say performed the BEST?" DeSantis placed second with more than 32%, while Scott received 4%. Haley had more than 1%, and Hutchinson and Pence both had well below 1%.

But Hutchinson and Pence dominated when it came to the question of who had performed the worst, with Pence earning more than 54% of the votes and Hutchinson earning nearly 42%.

On the question of whether Ramaswamy's performance left people more or less likley to vote for him, just over 78% of the votes were for more likely, while more than 3% were for less likely, and more than 18% of the votes were for neither.

But when the same question was posed regarding Pence, more than 88% of votes cast on that question indicated that Pence's performance at the forum had left people less likely to vote for him. Similarly, that number was over 84% for Hutchinson.

On the question of who respondents are most likely to back in the Republican presidential primary, more than 51% of the votes were cast in support of former President Donald Trump, who did not attend the event. DeSantis trailed with more than 32%, while Ramaswamy placed third with 13%.



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Glenn REACTS to Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson TORCHING their 2024 campaigns in Tucker Carlson interviews



Two presidential campaigns went down in flames at the 2023 FAMiLY Leadership Summit broadcasted by Blaze Media while others seemed to take off.

Former governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, was one of them.

In an interview on stage with Tucker Carlson, Hutchinson appeared to suggest that protecting children from trans medical “treatments” is not a big issue.

“Is it treatment to prevent him from going through the natural process of adolescence? How is that treatment? It seems not like treatment, it seems like something else,” Carlson was recorded asking Hutchinson regarding children who want to transition.

“Tucker, I hope that we’ll be able to talk about some issues —” Hutchinson said in response, before Carlson cut him off.

“This is one of the biggest issues in the country and I think every person in this room would agree that it is a central issue because these are children who are being altered permanently, and you can defend that alteration, that change if you like, but there’s really no debate about whether or not it’s permanent,” Carlson quipped back.

Mike Pence was another candidate who seemed to have torpedoed his campaign.

Carlson asked Pence why he is more concerned about providing tanks and funding to Ukraine than he is a degrading economy and sky rocketing suicide and crime rates in the United States.

“Well, it’s not my concern,” Pence responded, adding that “anybody that says we can’t be the leader of the Free World and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth. We can do both.”

After that, Stu Burguiere, Pat Gray, and Glenn Beck don’t see much hope for Pence or Hutchinson’s campaigns.

“It was a really bad political soundbite,” Stu says of Pence.

“He also was booed,” Glenn adds.

However, there were standing ovations for Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Glenn believes Ramaswamy is “surprising everyone who watches him.”

“I love him,” Gray adds, “I haven’t heard a single viewpoint of his that I disagree with yet.”


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DeSantis has BIG PLANS for day 1 as president: ‘They’re going to end up stone-cold DEAD'



Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and republican presidential candidate, has big plans for the day he steps into the Oval Office.

Unlike other candidates who danced around the topic of what to do about the border crisis — the one where millions of illegal immigrants are pouring into the country, bringing with them huge quantities of fentanyl — DeSantis has a clear plan.

Several of the other GOP candidates seemed more concerned about the war between Russia and Ukraine than the fact that over 100,000 Americans have now died as a result of fentanyl smuggled over the border.

And while DeSantis certainly isn't a fan of Putin, he’s far more concerned about “what’s in America’s national interest,” he told Tucker Carlson.

“I wish the D.C. elites cared as much about our border as they do about the Ukraine-Russia border,” he continued.

But when he’s elected president, all of that will change.

“Day one” of his term, DeSantis intends to “declare a national emergency, mobilize all resources, including the military, stop the invasion.”

“Yes, build the wall,” he continued, “but most importantly, authorize the border patrol — authorize our military — to deal with the cartels. If they’re breaking into our country bringing product, if I’m in charge, that’s going to be the last thing they do because they’re going to end up stone-cold dead.”

“I think there’s every reason to believe,” Dave Rubin says, “that on day one, he would mobilize the military and ... [defend] the border.”


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4 times Tucker Carlson said what we were ALL THINKING at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit



By Glenn Beck’s own admission, Tucker Carlson and he haven’t always been the best of friends.

However, there is something special about Tucker — and Beck knows it.

“God is using him. He has moved on him greatly. Please, add Tucker to your prayers,” Beck says, adding, “something really good is going to come out of what Tucker is doing.”

The founder of Blaze Media recently sat down with Tucker for the first time since he was ousted from Fox News, and he was impressed, to say the least.

In their one-on-one interview at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit, Beck recalled Tucker completely surprising him multiple times.

“You said something that I absolutely believe, and it is crazy to say it now, I think we absolutely blew up the Nord Stream pipeline,” Beck said.

“Of course we did,” Tucker replied.

“It’s a big deal, I mean on many levels. It was an environmental catastrophe,” Tucker added. He also believed it was “an act of vandalism,” an “attack on infrastructure,” and “an attack on our closest NATO ally, Germany, which used that pipeline to fund its entire manufacturing center.”

“We just attacked our ally,” he continued.

Beck also discussed the media’s attack on the truth with Tucker, who believes that the only time anyone becomes outraged at what someone reports on is when they're reporting the truth.

“When you say something true — that’s actually true, really true — people become hysterical and call for your murder and certainly call for your de-platforming,” Tucker said.

He also believes that while politicians are charming and many of them are quite likable, many of them, even Republicans, are incapable of answering questions.

“You’re trying to run the country and you’re mad that I’m, like, trying to get you to be more precise about your answers that you should have memorized already.”


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Vivek Ramaswamy SLAMS Kamala Harris, labeling her ANTI-AMERICAN



There are a lot of adjectives that might be used to describe Vice President Kamala Harris, including incompetent, incessantly verbose, and, according to Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, “anti-American.”

“I don’t think the dividing line in our country is between Republicans and Democrats,” he tells Tucker Carlson.

“I think it’s between those of us who are pro-American, who believe in the ideals of this country ... and those of us who” can only be described as “anti-American,” he continues.

“The vice president's a great embodiment of this.”

Although Vivek quickly moves his speech in a more constructive direction, choosing not to dwell on the VP’s extensive list of shortcomings, it’s clear what he thinks about her.

And who can blame him?

Between reducing America’s origins to slavery and colonization to essentially facilitating human and drug trafficking via loose border policies (plus a whole lot more), Vivek doesn’t need to explain why he thinks Kamala Harris is anti-American.

She’s proved it all by herself.

Watch the full clip below.


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Tucker Carlson turns Asa Hutchinson into 'a PUDDLE of NOTHINGNESS' over the subject of child castration



Last Friday, Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader to host the first presidential forum of the 2024 Republican primary season.

A charismatic and unapologetic Tucker Carlson conducted the interviews, some of which were well-received by the audience while others might be described as bloodbaths.

An unfortunate Asa Hutchinson fell into the latter category.

The Arkansas governor’s confusing stance on the subject of chemical castration for children didn’t go over so well with Tucker, who had several pointed (and entirely justified) questions for Hutchinson.

“But you said that children should be able to choose their gender, and their parents should be able to affirm that, and the state has no role in getting involved,” Tucker fires at a visibly flustered Asa.

“You’re saying that a child shouldn’t be able to choose a bathroom, but he can choose his sex. I don’t understand,” he continues.

“Let me finish!” Asa barks, clearly unsettled by the audience's applause for Tucker’s string of questions.

“I want the government to stay out [of schools],” he retorts, adding, “I want the parents and communities and our faith to guide us through these difficult decisions.”

Tucker isn’t satisfied with that answer though.

“You have repeatedly described delaying a child’s natural progression from childhood to adulthood through adolescence ... as quote ‘treatment,’” Tucker says.

He continues: “You believe, I suppose, that people can change their sex because if you don’t believe that, you wouldn’t call it treatment, would you?”

Dave Rubin fittingly describes Asa as “a puddle of nothingness” after Tucker hits him with this final question.

You have to see it to get the full picture. Watch the clip below.


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Tucker Carlson Just Ended Multiple Campaigns at Blaze's Media Summit | Direct Message | Rubin Report

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